US218998A - Improvement in ribbon-holders - Google Patents

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I. B. MILLNER. Ribbon-Holders.

No. 218,998. Patented Aug. 28,1879.

WITNESSES INVENTOR aac ATTORNEY NFETERS. FHDTD-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. (1C.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEIcE ISAAC B. MILLNER, OF CU'MBERLAND, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO CHARLES BAL'IZELL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN RIBBON-HOLDERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,998, dated August 26, 1879; application tiled July 12, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC B. MILLNER, of Cumberland, in the county of Alleghany and State oi' Maryland, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Ribbon-Holders; an d 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 oi' the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of my improved ribbonj holder. Fig. 2 is a central section thereof', and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are details.

This invention has relation to improvements roller an annular groove, b. C B designate' the end disks, having a central perforation, c, oi'slightly less diameter than the journals a. These are sprung over the journals into the groove b, as shown.i n"Fig. 2, and when thus engaged turn freely upon the journals. Inv stead of this arrangement, I may employ that illustrated in Fig. l at its upper part. The disk is here shown with a central opening, through which extends a journal having an edge langc, c, that holds the said disk-against lateral displacement when the journal is secured to the roller by the screw s.

The disks B C have crimped, stamped, or corded edges i, curving in, as shown, the object of this construction being `to reduce the width between the disks at their edges, and thus prevent the loose end of the ribbon from working out from between the di-ks. This construction is fully illustrated in Fig. 2.

The ribbon or any other narrow fabric may be previously wound upon the blocks, andthe disks subsequently sprung on or otherwise secured thereto. In thus putting on the ribbon a corresponding slip of paper is lsecured to the blocks and wound round the same one or more times. The ribbon is then attached to the under side ot' the strip and the two wound on together. As the ribbon and strip are sold oft and the quantity on theroller runs short, the natural elasticity ofthe paper strip comes into play and keeps the ribbon pressed out against therinturned edge of the disks, causing the roller to present' the appearance of being full.

The two disks are braced together by the straps l, and, it' desired, may be constructed, as shown in Fig. 6, in one piece with the said disks.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a ribbon-holder, the roller A, provided with rotary disks B C, having the inturned edges z', substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the roller A, having journals a, with grooves b, of the end disks, B C, rotating in said grooves, all substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC B. MILLNER.

Witnesses:

F. M. OEEUTT, y A. KEAN.

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